Assembly Sites of Wales

The Assembly Sites of
Wales pilot project was established following discussions at the 2014 meeting of EMWARG (Early
Medieval Wales Archaeology Research Group) and the identification of assembly
sites at the Pillar of Eliseg (Denbighshire) and Bayvil (Pembrokeshire).

Although
considerable recent advances have been made in the understanding of these sites
elsewhere in Britain and north-west Europe, they are currently very poorly
understood in Wales, where early medieval written sources are sparse and
non-specific.

The pilot project will
trial the recording and analysis of possible and probable Welsh sites of
assembly. It is an independent, collaborative initiative and, though not part
of UCL’s Landscapes of Governance project, will build on its experience and
expertise in identifying these important but archaeologically elusive sites.